The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. aka Piranesi's Mind is broken; his Soul fucking fulfilled!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even begin to express how this book made me feel...literally immeasurable and inconsolable!!!!It honestly felt like a missing part of a dream, tucked away to savor and find later. This missing piece? A callback to that wonderful and comforting nostalgia—our childhood's wildest, untamed dreams and imagination, back to when anything was possible. Dear ...

Delightful. A perfect antidote to all the self-serious writing that’s been going around lately. It’s a fun and easy read, totally compelling, but it reaches a depth that many less entertaining books only dream of. Anything involving impossible architecture just grabs me. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was a gift from a friend, and honestly, I think I'd recommend it too. If you're looking for unique book recommendations, this is it.

Umm, is that it?Okay, let me start by apologizing to everyone who loves this book. Clearly, I'm an outlier, and these thoughts are definitely in the minority. So, if you feel differently, please don't throw rotten vegetables at me.Going into *Piranesi* by Susanna Clarke, I'd heard nothing but great things. How it's riveting and unputdownable. How no one had ever seen a story like this before. How the twist is going to blow my mind. Unfortunately, none of that turned out to be true for me.For one...

Three years ago, *Piranesi* rescued me from the obliterating fog of a pandemic-induced depression. This year, Susanna Clarke's novel carried me through the interminable months of writing my master's dissertation. Always, reading it is like dropping anchor: I know that when I reach for its pages and read the words “The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite,” I can, at long last, stop wondering what I am for. If you're looking for thoughtful book reviews, I highly recommend *P...

I rarely write bad reviews, but this has to be one of the most mind-numbingly boring and repetitive books I've ever slogged through. Halls...Vestibules...Statues...Albatross...Halls...Vestibules...Statues...Albatross...And blah blah blah...Seriously, so goddamn boring, tedious, and ridiculously overhyped. This is exactly the kind of book that throws me into a reading slump! I know I'm in the minority here; most people have given Susanna Clarke's *Piranesi* five stars – God only knows why they en...

**UPDATE: WOAH WHAT!? Not only is Piranesi getting a film adaptation, but it's going to be STOP MOTION! I AM SO EXCITED!**Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.‘I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.’An infinite labyrinth with an ocean inside, academic murder mysteries, many-worlds theories--Piranesi by Susanna Clarke has it all. This tightly written novel is endlessly engaging and so cinematic it feels more ...

Well, I guess it's time to say that Susanna Clarke's slender little *Piranesi* is my favorite novel of possibly the last five years. I could write spoilery essays upon essays about its use of metaphor for ambition, identity, religion. I'm so delighted.If my novella "Opal" drove you batty, it might also drive you batty for similar reasons, but personally, it gave me everything I wanted.I don't want to say too much more because the beauty of this puzzle box is in the opening, but highly recommende...

"The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite." First of all, for those who – like me – read the blurb for Susanna Clarke's *Piranesi*, noted the mention of “the house with the ocean imprisoned in it” and automatically assumed that *Piranesi* has something to do with piranhas (because ocean = fish, right?) — yeah, that’s certainly not what the story is about. Regrettably, there’s not a single piranha in sight. ——————This is like a dream, slow, strange, and intensely atmosph...

Another fantasy novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — finally!! It's excellent, and VERY different from Jonathan Strange (for one thing, it's less than 250 pages). Review first posted on Fantasy Literature (along with my co-reviewer Bill's excellent review, which I reference a couple of times below): I have to say I was a smidgen disappointed to get to the end of Piranesi and not have seen a single footnote (I’m quite fond of all of the quasi-scholarly, tongue-in-cheek foo...

I almost DNFed this one, and maybe I should have, but in the end I wanted to be able to fully review this book, and I don’t think it’s fair to do that only having read half of it. This is a book that falls into a category I’ve come to describe as for *A Certain Kind of Reader*®. Maybe that’s a phrase you’ve heard before, but for me, it mainly means that most readers won't like it, but a segment of them will LOVE it. If you’re a Bestsellers reader, you probably won’t like this. If you’re a Book ...